RESUMEN

The Canadian Forces' (CF) deployable hospital, 1 Canadian Field Hospital, was deployed to Haiti after an earthquake that caused massive devastation. Two surgical teams performed 167 operations over a 39-day period starting 17 days after the index event. Most operations were unrelated to the earthquake. Replacing or supplementing the destroyed local surgical capacity for a brief period after a disaster can be a valuable contribution to relief efforts. For future humanitarian operations/disaster response missions, the CF will study the feasibility of accelerating the deployment of surgical capabilities.

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Terremotos , Hospitales de Urgencia/organización & administración , Traumatismo Múltiple/cirugía , Sistemas de Socorro/organización & administración , Canadá , Planificación en Desastres/organización & administración , Femenino , Haití , Humanos , Cooperación Internacional , Masculino , Traumatismo Múltiple/etiología , Quirófanos , Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Operativos/estadística & datos numéricos